hs5ias wrote:Heh, yeah. Always a problem coming up with foes for the canonically most powerful superhero in the whole setting.

That's a problem for Superman since the 60's, really. Same with Thor, Hulk, Captain Marvel, etc. The reason Spider-Man and Batman have such fantastic rogues' galleries is that it's easier to write challenges for heroes like that and give them better characterization.

Continuing with characters from Worlds' Finest we have the new look Desaad. He is a lot more menacing this time round, being larger and more inhuman, with a higher level of power and competence. He is no longer a coward, standing and fighting Power Girl and Huntress. Most of his powers derive from his techical skills, his ability to mind control people and transform them into monsters. He dispatches horrid beasts against the dynamic duo while targeting their businesses and friends for destruction. Like them he is desperate to get back to Earth 2 and Darkseid.

I've made his mind control powers lower rank because he doesn't use them on our heroines, though he routinely mind controls anyone who isn't a superhero. He can disguise himself to look normal, but that can be done as a power stunt or by simply mind controlling everyone in the vicinity.

A radiation monster created by Desaad to attack Power Girl's technical projects. In his Forever Evil one-shot we find that Hakkou was once a man, taken and altered by Desaad into a weapon. My idea is that he is a Japanese nuclear scientist who sought technical secrets from Desaad and paid the price. Immensely powerful even Power Girl struggles to take him down. The design of the character is clearly inspired by the radiation monster in the opening episode of Justice League Unlimited and other big toxic monsters like Brimstone and Chemo.

The Batgirl of the New 52 is a brilliant person who was shattered into a million pieces and has not been put back together quite right. She is notably less confident and capable than her Earth 2 counterpart, Huntress. She gets emotionally involved with her enemies, letting them get to her, and struggles with life in general. It remains to be seen whether she will develop into the supreme mastermind that was her Oracle incarnation.

Batgirls skills are still formidable though, she sweeps mooks with high-speed ease, and has taken on entire gangs of metahuman attackers and stood them off. She doesn't have extraordinary computer skills as yet though, being much more directly physical. Her personal crimefighting resources are meagre, consisting of her batsuit, her bike and her laptop. She is chronically unemployed in the comic, making me wonder what she lives on. She flings batarangs with wild abandon and those things can't be cheap. The only conclusion is that Batman is subbing her, like he has done for so many others, or more likely the writers just haven't thought about it.

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A ruthless mercenary who will kill anyone for money, and who couldn't care less about collateral damage, cheerfully using military-grade weapons in a built-up area. An explosives expert he uses mines around his firing position. A rather different foe for Batgirl, who mostly fights enemies who are as traumatised and damaged as she is.

A heroic young reporter who infiltrated the mob. Predictably it all went wrong and she ended up floating in Gotham harbour full of bullet holes. She survived and found out that being shot in the head had given her powers of hypnotic suggestion. She can implant mental control into people that they aren't aware of and that will trigger under circumstances of her choosing. The multiple ranks of trigger are there to make it a variable power. She now uses her power in a crusade against those she sees as evil and corrupt, but is so mentally fractured that she makes them go on suicidal rampages rather than say confessing their crimes and giving all their ill-gotten gains away. Her power doesn't work on any person who is aware that she is doing it though, she cannot use it in combat.

A villain with a limited ability to generate electricity. He fancies himself a connoisseur and likes to steal works of art and fine things. He casually tortures and kills anyone who gets in his way, or just because he enjoys it. A talkative creep whose interactions with Batgirl make the skin crawl.

Batgirl's first opponent in her new series. Like many of her foes he has suffered a terrible trauma in his past that has left him unhinged and homicidal. While a normal man he is a former US federal agent and is very strong and highly-trained, a challenging foe for Batgirl.

A metahuman killer who was mentally twisted from childhood. Now lives the life of a Buffalo Bill style serial killer, turning people into participants in her murderous performances. She has telekinetic powers which she mostly uses to animate her doll Ferdie into a maniacal killer who keeps up a constant stream of creepy chatter, but in a pinch she will use them more directly, such as by deflecting a thrown batarang back at Batgirl. Emaciated, filthy and completely deranged there is nothing left of her to salvage, if there ever was.

A young woman who suffered a trauma similar to Batgirl, a home invasion by a murderous madman. She survived unharmed physically but what she saw has left her not right. She has set out on a crusade to fight crime in Gotham, but unlike Batgirl she aims to achieve it with as much killing as possible. Her own abilities are limited, her chief resource is money, she is one of the wealthiest people in Gotham. She hired her own team of mostly low-grade metahumans, which she calls The Disgraced. After Batgirl defeated them she put together a new team out of all the other foes Batgirl had defeated, getting them out of jail with bribery. A recurring foe of Batgirl she is in many ways the most dangerous because of her ability to hire so much muscle and weasel out of prosecution for her many crimes.

A student who managed to nerve gas much of his school. It's not clear where he got his ability to secrete acid from his hands, whether it is a metahuman trait or one he gave himself. Being mostly a normal guy he soon goes down when Batgirl or some other hero can take a swing at him. He would be most dangerous using his chemical skills in a terrorist campaign. Knightfall is crazy enough to think she could clear Gotham neighbourhoods of crime by nerve-gassing all the occupants.

Another foe who lost her family and with them her mind. She is the strongest supporter of Knightfall and her crusade, the others are mercenaries or are there to indulge their own psychoses. A former wrestler her traits reflect this. She is quite a powerful metahuman and Batgirl struggles to even put a dent in her.

A sort of Hawkgirl very-light, she just has wings and a spiked club. Batgirl soon gets her measure and takes her down. After the initial confrontation between Barbara and the DIsgraced she quits and goes off to join the Movement, appearing from then on in that comic. She is a former cop who meted out a particularly vicious act of vigilante justice, against what turned out to be an innocent man.